“There are reasons to doubt that what we call the laws of physics necessarily apply everywhere in the universe—or that they were… — Michael Brooks Copy Share Image
“By space the universe encompasses me and swallows me up like an atom; by thought I comprehend the world.” — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The universe is made up of vibrating, pulsing light. When our attention level drops, we don't see that. Instead we see what… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I have a problem with telling jokes about physics. Quite often the audience have no idea what you are talking about and,… — Robin Ince Copy Share Image
“One may characterize physics as the doctrine of the repeatable, be it a succession in time or the co-existence in space. The… — Friedrich Hund Copy Share Image
Cognition is not fighting, but once someone knows a lot, he will have much to fight for, so much that he will… — Karel Capek Copy Share Image
Sir,' I said to the universe, 'I exist.' 'That,' said the universe, 'creates no sense of obligation in me whatsoever. — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“Einstein didn't invent the theory of relativity while he was multitasking at the Swiss patent office." quoting, David Meyer, a cognitive scientist… — Winifred Gallagher Copy Share Image
“When an important change takes place in science, in which a new theory takes the stagw, the incoming theory is generally an… — John D. Barrow Copy Share Image
The first thing to realize about physics ... is its extraordinary indirectness… For physics is not about the real world, it is… — Anthony Standen Copy Share Image
“That’s impossible [...] You need infinite energy for light travel. Haven’t you heard of the theory of relativity?” She thought she had… — Shannon Messenger Copy Share Image
Most Muggles lived in a world defined by the limits of what you could do with cars and telephones. Even though Muggle… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
“Are you looking for the ultimate laws of physics?" No, I'm not. I'm just looking to find out more about the world… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
“The electrons in a carbon atom in the human brain are connected to the subatomic particles that comprise every salmon that swims,… — Michael Talbot Copy Share Image
“In fact, meta- and particle physicists have more in common than one might suppose: both tug, if in slightly different directions, at… — Tim Mackintosh-Smith Copy Share Image
“After receiving the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1918, Max Planck went on tour across Germany. Wherever he was invited, he delivered… — Rolf Dobelli Copy Share Image
In brief, the whole world is the totality of mathematically expressible motions of objects in space and time, and the entire universe… — Morris Kline Copy Share Image
“Listen." I tugged at my neighbor. "Just listen to me! You must-you must give me an answer: out there, where your finite… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
“The universe maintained a balance, moving first one way and then the other in a forever equalizing of opposites.” — Diana Lanham Copy Share Image
That attitude does not exist so much today, but in those days there was a very sharp distinction between basic physics and… — Gordon Gould Copy Share Image
The mathematical difficulties of the theory of rotation arise chiefly from the want of geometrical illustrations and sensible images, by which we… — James Clerk Maxwell Copy Share Image
“You know how they say there's only one thing in the universe that's constant?' Jonas started. 'Change. Change is the only constant… — Nora Raleigh Baskin Copy Share Image
You almost can't avoid having some version of the multiverse in your studies if you push deeply enough in the mathematical descriptions… — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
There was quantum mechanics, string theory, and then there was the most mind-bending frontier of the natural world, women. — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
A man of thought must feel the thought that is parent of the universe: that the masses of nature do undulate and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“To understand the precise point when the possible becomes the impossible, you have to appreciate and understand the laws of physics.” — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
One aim of physical sciences had been to give an exact picture the material world. One achievement of physics in the twentieth… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
The glory of Him who moves everything penetrates through the universe, and is resplendent in one part more and in another less. — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
“Problem 1: Combine general relativity and quantum theory into a single theory that can claim to be the complete theory of nature.… — Lee Smolin Copy Share Image
Every time we start thinking we're the center of the universe, the universe turns around and says with a slightly distracted air,… — Margaret Maron Copy Share Image
Look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see, and wonder about… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
We're cognizant, curious beings, capable of philosophical thought, nuclear physics, repeating Nerf weapons, global consciousness, Glade air fresheners, and sentient automobiles. But… — Nick Offerman Copy Share Image
Cambridge was the place for someone from the Colonies or the Dominions to go on to, and it was to the Cavendish… — Aaron Klug Copy Share Image
Sci-fi has never really been my bag. But I do believe in a lot of weird things these days, such as synchronicity.… — John Cleese Copy Share Image
“My estimate for the northern lights in Oregon being predicted correctly seems to be about 5% accuracy.” — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
You are the most powerful magnet in the universe and this magnetic power is emitted through your thoughts — Sitara Devi Copy Share Image
Two possibilities exist... Either we are alone in this universe, or we are not. Both are equally terryfying — Live_Skate_Smoke Copy Share Image
That's the world we live in: when it comes to economics, people have emotions; it's not like chemistry or physics. — Robert J. Shiller Copy Share Image
There are two worlds we live in: a material world, bound by the laws of physics, and the world inside our mind,… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
When it turned out that he could, Karou dropped to her knees to genuflect. "Gods of math and physics," she intoned, "I… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image